Arts and Humanities

Welcome

The academic disciplines that constitute the Arts and Humanities arise from our need
to create; search for life's meaning, and to understand the nature of beauty, fellowship,
knowledge, creativity, and imagination. The Arts and Humanities Department of Valencia
College-West supports the College's mission by providing general education courses
and extracurricular opportunities focused on foreign languages, fine arts, humanities,
and interdisciplinary studies.

We, the Arts and Humanities Department, pledge to support and do our utmost to protect
members of our community who are discriminated against, unjustly treated, or otherwise
targeted because of race, religion, gender, sexuality, immigration status, and other
forms of difference. Recognizing that words and symbols are powerful and can be manipulated
into violence, we proclaim our commitment to direct the force of language toward large
and small acts of learning, alliance, imagination, and justice.

We acknowledge this statement from the Faculty of the English Department at Cornell
University.